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might be placed in it as in a box ! In 1876 in company with my 

 friend Mr. David Robertson, I dredged diligently the spot carefully 

 described by Farran, but without again meeting with this form ; but 

 Mr. A. G. More informed me that the year before that just men- 

 tioned he had found a similar sized specimen in a lough near Gal- 

 way. (Norman, Ann. Mag. N. H., 1890). 



Genus VOLVATELLA Pse. (Vol. xv, p. 382). 

 V. LAGUNCULA Sowerby. 



Shell ovate-cylindric, membranaceous, involute, abruptly con- 

 tracted behind, shortly produced, rounded in front. Aperture 

 widely ovate in front, sinuous behind, very narrow, the right lip 

 truncate at both ends, inflexed in the middle, left lip lightly re- 

 flexed. Length 6, diam. 3* mill. (Sowb.). 



Port Elizabeth, S. Africa. 



Volvatella laguncula SOWB., Journ. of Conch., vii, p. 373. 



Compared with V. cumingi it is much smaller, less abruptly trun- 

 cated and produced posteriorly, and proportionately wider ante- 

 riorly ; it is also less cylindrical in form than V. cincta of Nevill, 

 and shows no sign of the transverse bands characteristic of that spe- 

 cies. (Sowb.). 



CYLINDKOBULLA SCULPTA Nevill (Vol. xv, p. 381) is reported 

 from South Africa by Sowerby, I. G. 



Genus HAMINEA Leach, (Vol. xv, p. 352). 



H. BINOTATA Pilsbry. 



Shell cylindric-oval, hardly wider below, truncated above, rounded 

 beneath, thin, but rather solid, ruddy-corneous, with a small opaque- 

 white spot at each end, that at apex bounded below, that at colu- 

 mella, above, by an opaque orange or reddish tract, appearing only 

 on the latter part of the whorl. Surface polished, with excessively 

 fine and close spiral striae, and rather coarse growth wrinkles. 

 Aperture rather narrow, moderately enlarged below. Outer lip 

 rising slightly above the vertex, but by no means high-arched. Col- 

 umella concave, short, with a lunate, reflexed, but free, not adherent, 

 flange, but no fold. Apex closed or subperforate. Alt. 11, diam. 

 7 mill. 



Yaeyama ( Okinawa), Loo Choo Is. (Stearns). 



